Sunday, July 24, 2022
Sunday Reflection: We Aren't the Champions
If you are like me, you fantasize about winning. Winning whatever: a game, the challenge at work, an election. Personally, I would love to win the fight to change the clemency process in my state and the nation.
It's at the center of our culture, this idea of winning. Movies use this as the mechanism to make us care about events; we come to love a character and want them to win-- they are an extension of us.
But we weren't told to be champions. We were told to be servants.
And the thing about servanthood is that it is about action, not the result and acclaim. We have to accept that the actions of servanthood are worthwhile, even while we are not celebrated.
Of all of the gulfs between our culture and our faith, this may be the greatest.
